Family Stereotypes

Moving to the United States was a difficult experience for me. At first I felt like I had no family. I only had my daughter and my husband. But things have changed for

The perfect American family was given to us in a form of a photo, an inspiring photograph dating back to the 1950’s gives us light to the perfect portrayal of the American Family. The media painted them as a middle class, white family standing in front of their perfect suburban home. Neatly trimmed grass lined with a white picket fence, husband and wife holding their infant child. In the twenty-first century the nuclear family is not the only type of family around, on a daily basis we see same sex couples, single parents, and blended households all raising families. The traditional American family is no longer traditional, what’s normal and accepted today still causes eye brows to be raised, the family template we have created as a culture

The idea the authors, Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, are communicating to the audience is that the minority families do not have weaker ties to its extended family relationships compared to the white families. Rather, the ties to kinship depends on racial or ethnic differences.

Negativity Towards Fathers: Incapable Stereotype Fathers have been degraded in many movies, television shows, and commercials as incapable and incompetent. Stereotypes are socially constructed by society and the media. As humans tend to label people by what we are taught and see through the media. This stereotype arrived from the 1950’s and 1960’s sitcoms that relied on the incapable father to keep the viewers entertained. The sitcoms in that day and age featured a “5 o’clock dad…with a newspaper as a face” (Quindlen 101).

Modern Family is a show that portrays marriage and families. They are all one big family due to different marriages that take place. However, there are three separate smaller families. They have a family with a wife, husband, and three children. There are three distinct families: "the cliche family," wife, husband, kids, and middle class, gay couple with an adopted child, an interracial couple with the husband being a lot older than the wife, and her child. Occasionally, she discusses the hardships of being a single mother before marrying her husband. For the most part, the show seems to attempt to be inclusive about all of the different types of families there are now. However, there are gender stereotypes included in the show involving the

Modern Family is an ABC series that was introduced to us in September 2009. This sitcom series features three different families that who form a large extended family that live in the suburban of Los Angeles. “Show as won many awards, including Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series five years running. This show is on its sixth season and compelling over 140 episodes. Airing on Friday nights, it will pick up its sixth season this May.

Many people are aware of the reputation that goes along with PDA and as a result many people are afraid of the criticism and stigma that goes along with PDA. Thus, they are too embraced to participate in it. I remember having the same fears of being criticized by others around me with my girlfriend. I envisioned how the scene would go down in my head several times

The configuration of a family is always fluctuating and deviates from culture to culture. The roles and behavior in a Hispanic family may strongly differ from a Caucasian family, and a Caucasian family from a Chinese family. Regardless of the culture to which a family belongs, every culture has had or currently has stereotypes, such as gender roles. In the mid 1900’s, an “ideal” Caucasian American family would have had a wife who remains home throughout the day and takes care of the house, a working father, and two to three children. The father would have the final word on everything; in other words he would possess ultimate authority, with the mother and children not getting much say in any decisions. In the recent decades, however, women have secured jobs, most men share authority with the mother, and parents listen to their children. Today, gender roles are slowly receding, children have the opportunity to decide their future, and parents are becoming more lenient with their children.

Families are an important aspect of our lives and in American culture. In television commercials, families are seen happily eating together at the table with a box of the latest Cheerios or Quaker oats cereal. Everything looks perfect at the breakfast table. These commercials depict the expectations of a family: happy, healthy, trusting, and loving. This picture, however, shows the opposite of that perfect scenario. It shows an example of what another family may experience during what is supposed to be a typical family mealtime: an incident of abuse. In the center, a child is about to be hit by his father. This may not be something viewers want to see, but it is something that viewers need to see because of it’s message. The goal of this picture

Victims - a common stereotype that reflects the medical approach to disability is to view

In contrast of why children watch ads, I was observing what lengths companies were pushing themselves through for research. This petrified me, one company had creepy slumber parties that asked about certain products, taking field trips to the mall or stores like Dick’s sporting goods. That is not a field trip, it is a waste of time for parents who take their kids to school every morning. It is bad enough that parents are pestered on a regular basis on, now they have to hear about a field trip to the mall? If I was a parent I would be livid. Take my child to the zoo or a museum, don’t take my darling shopping.

"well back in my day" is a quote usually sterotyped to older people. that quote is completely accurate. in my family my sisters and I have experienced many generational; conflicts. normally involving what we wear, how we respect our elders, and how we have no responsibility nowadays. but as cliché as it soumds, times have changed.growing up with two older sisters I learned the dos and do nots with my parents pretty well. I remember an argument my eldest sister, Nicole, had with my Mom. it was oer clothing , see my sister had quite the excentric taste in clothing and on this particular day she wanted to wear something that showed a little more skin than usual. mom used the famous, 'when I was inhighschool we dressed more modestly.' then made my

Each person in the family of four stopped what they were doing and looked at the television. Their hearts stopped beating, their legs were stuck to the ground, and it was like the whole world paused. Any emotions such as anger, sadness, or happiness went away while they stared blankly at the screen. The only thing they could do was reread the words scrolling at the bottom over and over until they were blue in the face. The words said “BREAKING NEWS… THE VOLCANO MOUNT VENUS WILL ERUPT IN APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR. PLEASE EVACUATE YOUR HOMES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.” No one in the town or anyone in the family was prepared for a situation like this. The only thing the family knew was they could not stand in front of the television thinking this is not

I come from a family that is authoritarian, but also very family oriented. I come from a place where many people don’t understand my culture, and place me in a stereotype of what they think they know, but have no idea. I had a childhood, where I was picked on because I had eczema so bad, that my classmates made fun of. I was brought up to be respectful of my elders, which most individuals is lacking today. I come from a family where I felt like I couldn’t talk about my wants and needs, because my parents was so strict. As I grew older, it became easier for me to communicate. I come from a home where I saw my parents argue every day, so I thought that was acceptable behavior in a relationship. I used to keep my feelings in to the point where it would boil over on to someone who really didn’t deserve it. Over the years, I’ve learned to let my feelings out more by going to therapy and expressing how I felt. I had to learn the hard way that you don’t hurt the people you love, and at that point I realized I had anger problems. I come from an environment where being angry all the time was okay, but it wasn’t. I had to make the initiative to go to anger management if I ever wanted to truly be happy with the person I was becoming.

I found it difficult to examine and compare the list of occupations that my family has held both on my level and on my grandparents level. I did not input the chart listing their occupations and area of work because there would be many unknowns to work with. Even within the unknowns, I was able to identify a pattern that goes along with the gender stereotypes talked about in the reading. My family seems to reflect the gender stereotype trends. When thinking about the women in my family, minus my mother no one has tried all that hard to obtain a position that could lead to a career. A big part of that was due to them never being told that they should reach further and try to establish themselves. Thinking about my grandmother’s, one was a homemaker and my other grandmother owned a restaurant with my grandfather. While it appears that my grandmother fits the stereotype of becoming a homemaker and my grandmother that owned the restaurant did not, it’s not the case. Although my grandmother was the co-owner of the restaurant it wasn’t her dream, she did what women did, she followed him and helped him reach his dreams. Once he died, she got rid of the restaurant because she had no desire so keep it and keep working. She has not worked since then. When looking at my cousins out of the five I grew up the closest too, three males two females, both the females who are a few years older than me both have four each and they started having kids when they were teenagers.